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Big Brother Google is at it again!

It appears that Google may be about to instate a new privacy policy that will allow them to track users across all of Google's properties, including GMail, and allows them to use the information they gather. You will be forced to opt into the new policy.

Bottom line from what I gather from that article and others I have read in past few days?
Google will only put out what they have been paid to put out...
EG: Search will just be those that paid to show up. the free ones like now? will be buried deep.

Bottom line from what I gather from that article and others I have read in past few days?
Google will only put out what they have been paid to put out...
EG: Search will just be those that paid to show up. the free ones like now? will be buried deep.

Paid inclusion could happen. The issue in the search industry is the lack of competition. You get more free stuff in competitive environments. At one point in time the netscape web browser cost $100 until Microsoft started giving away internet explorer for free.

I think all of this misguided nonsense is just the tip of the iceberg. I am seeing more and more sites that try to entice you to "sign up using your FaceBook account." I have even run into a few e-commerce sites that try to get you to do this. Why in the world would anyone want to do that? FaceBook has already proven itself to be one of the most deceptive and dishonest of all of the major web sites when it comes to personal privacy issues. They have repeatedly been caught selling and exposing personal data without users' knowledge, and sometimes in violation of their own policies, which makes it illegal. Anytime you post a privacy policy on your web site, you can be sued for violating your own policy.